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Updated Tuesday 22nd October, 6.15pm
Wednesday 23 October
BATH, Forum, The Horne Section, comedy, 7.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance, and Thurs.
Little Theatre Club, Jameson Road, Gaslight, to Sat.
Boscombe Arts Depot, Moonlight, 7pm. PFF
BRIDPORT,Arts Centre, The Small World of Clive Crudwick, Bridport original show with music and film, raising funds for local charities, and Thurs, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Reverberation by Matthew Lopez, with Eleanor Tomlinson and Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, to 2 Nov, Mon-Sat 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
Tobacco Factory, Moments.
Beacon, Il Divo: Lantern Hall, Bodega, punk cultural commentators.
St George’s Vonda Shepard, Greatest Hits, 8pm: Studio, Craig Crofton, saxophone, jazz, 7.30.
Strange Brew, Tora, electronic indie rock.
CALNE, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Room 13, to 9 Nov.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, American Fiction, film, 7.30 and Thurs 11am.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Radical, Mexican/American film, 7.30. PFF
EAST KNOYLE, Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, The Commotion Time, new play by Sarah Dickinson set in Devon in 1547.
Barnfield Theatre, St David’s Players in The Yeomen of the Guard, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Walter Trout.
LANGTON MATRAVERS, Village Hall, Reg Meuross, singer, songwriter and storyteller and Suntou Susso, kora, Stolen from God, 7.30.AR
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Rozi Plain, singer songwriter, 8pm.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Lost Dog in Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) solo performance, theatre and dance, to Sat, 7.45, Sat mat 2.45.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out, 10am, 1 and 4pm: Holst 150, BSO, cond David Hill, Jesper Svedberg, Anna Devin and Andrew Foster-Williams, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Elgar: Freya Beer, art rock, 8pm: Cinema, Fantastic Machine, documentary about invention of the camera, 7.30. PFF: Jodie Comer in Prima Facie, encore, 7.30 and 30 Oct: The Outrun.
PURBECK FILM FESTIVAL, to 3 November, various venues. PFF
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Play On!, a new jazz musical based on Twelfth Night, to 2 Nov.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Hocus Pocus, film, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, 101 Dalmatians – the Musical, to 26 Oct.
MAST, Floella Benjamin’s Coming to England, to Sat, 7pm, various mats.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Paris Memories, French thriller, 6pm: The Nature of Love, French Canadian romantic comedy, 8.30pm. PFF
Durlston Castle, Six Inches of Soil, documentary about farmers and the industrial food system, 7.30. PFF
WAREHAM, Rex Cinema, Unmoored, Swedish drama, 7.30. PFF
Holme for Gardens, Wicked Little Letters, 6.30 meal, 7.30 film. PFF
WELLS, Cedars Hall, Wells Literature Festival, to Sat.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, 10CC.
College Bay Theatre, Frankenstein (on a budget), solo show, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, new Tim Burton film, 2pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Library and Westlands, Yeovil Literary Festival, to 28th Oct, inc Martin Clunes, Kaleb Cooper, Simon Armitage, Kate Humble, Her Hon Wendy Joseph KC, Carol Klein, etc.
Westlands, Codebreakers – the Story of Enigma, with Dr Mark Baldwin, 7.30.
Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, The Zone of Interest.
Thursday 24 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, Nathaniel Parker and Sian Phillips in Terence Rattigan’s Summer 1954 – Table Number Seven and The Browning version, to 2 November, Mon-Sat 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
Forum, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, 50th anniversary, live in concert, 7.30.
Rondo, The Dreamer – Live, magic, and Fri, 7.30.
Chapel Arts, Judie Tzuke – Jude the Unsinkable, 8pm.
BRIDGWATER, Arts Centre, Alfie Moore, A Face for Radio, comedy, 7.30.
McMillan Theatre, Ballet Cymru, Romeo and Juliet, 7pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Henning Wehn, Acid Wehn, comedy, and Fri, 7.30.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Adrian Utley’s Drones for the Dark Months, 8pm.
Beacon, Tindersticks: Lantern Hall, John Paul White, folk rock.
Tobacco Factory, Tatty McLeod, Fugue (extra date)
CHICHESTER, Cathedral, Holst 150, BSO, cond David Hill, Jesper Svedberg, Anna Devin and Andrew Foster-Williams, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Elgar.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Manfreds, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Martha Tilston, folk.
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Dr Louise Newson, Hormones and Menopause – the Great Debate, 7.30.
Barnfield Theatre, Middleweight Theatre in What’s Next, The story of the pioneer aviator Harriet Quimby, to Sat, 8pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Undertones.
Tree House, The New Roses.
HARDINGTON MANDEVILLE, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, Carry On Screaming, 1966 film, dementia frienly, 2pm: Grounded, new opera by Jeanine Tesori, live from the Metropolitan Opera, 6.30pm.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Shanty Sessions with the Chantry Buoys, free, 7.30.
LYTCHETT MINSTER, The Cowshed, Chef, 2014 food comedy drama, meal 7pm, film, 8.30. PFF
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Shaparak Khorsandi, Scatterbrain, comedy, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Mugenkayo Taiko Drummers, 7.45: Troy Hawke, comedy, 8pm: Dan Croll, singer songwriter, 8pm: Cinema, Funny Girl, dementia friendly screening, 2pm: If Only I Could Hibernate, Mongolian film, 7.30. PFF
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, The Unravelling Wilburys, 7.30.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Alfred and Dorset, lecture by Prof Ryan Lavelle, 7pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Seckou Keita, kora, and his band from Senegal, 8pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Exhibition on Screen: Klimt and The Kiss, 7.30. PFF
Durlston Castle, The Nettle Dress, documentary, 7.30. PFF
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Celebrate!, African and Caribbean music and dance, part of Black History Month, 7.30.
WAREHAM, Rex Cinema, Io Capitano, Senegalese film, 7.30. PFF
Creech Grange Country House, double bill, reception 2.45, Gaslight (1944) 3.45: The Long Good Friday, (1980) reception 6.30, film 7.30. PFF
WESTON SUPER MARE, Blakehay Theatre, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary, to Sat.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Wimborne Drama in Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution, to Sat, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, NT Live, Jodie Comer in Prima Facie, recorded in the West End, 7pm.
Friday 25 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Jonathan Guy Lewis in I Found My Horn, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Forum, From the Jam.
Chapel Arts, The Luke Jackson Trio, folk roots, 8pm.
BISHOPSTONE, nr Salisbury, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Lucinda Light, star of Married at First Sight Australia.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Seckou Keita Band, Senegalese musicians and kora, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, The UpBeat Beatles, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Luke Wright, Joy, performance poetry, 7.30.
BRINKWORTH, Village Hall, James Rowland in Learning to Fly, storytelling, 8pm. RAW
BRISTOL, Beacon, John Grant, American singer.
St George’s, Ribbons, Sara Colman, Rebecca Nash and Henrik Jensen, words, stories and soundscapes, 1pm: Anna Tsybuleva, piano, Rachmaninov, Debussy, 7.30: Studio, Sam Carter, guitarist and songwriter, 7.30.
CHEDDON and WEST MONKTON, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Country Roads, 7.30.
CLAYHIDON, Village Hall, Baltimore. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Rodriguez King-Dorset in The Windrush Secret, new play, 7.30.
EAST BURTON, Village Hall, Back to Black, biographical film about Amy Winehouse, meal 7pm, film 8pm. PFF
EAST STOUR, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, An Evening with Jimmy Tarbuck, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, Shakespeare Live in The Prince and the Knave (from the Henry IV plays) 8pm.
Memorial Theatre, The Manfreds.
Cheese and Grain, Martin Fry of ABC.
Tree House, Whitesnake UK.
HONITON, Beehive, Cellar Theatre in Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost, 6.30pm.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Voces Amici, 7.30.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Robin Morgan, The Spark, comedy, 7.30.
NORTON ST PHILIP, Village Hall, La Chimera. MOVIOLA
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Tom Fletcher’s The Creakers, magical musical adventure, to 2 Nov (not Sun), 7pm, Thurs 31/Sat 2 Nov mats 2pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Afro Celt Sound System, 7.30: The Bowie Experience, 7.45: Natalie Reckert in Natalie Inside Out, circus and digital media, 8pm: Cinema, About Dry Grasses, Turkish drama, 6.30. PFF
ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT, RWB Academy, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Barnstormers Comedy, 8pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Chinatown, 1974 film, 8pm.
STUDLAND, Knoll House Hotel, Oppenheimer, 7pm. PFF
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, sport double bill, Power Alley, Brazillian football film, 6pm: Copa 71, documentary about 1971 women’s soccer world cup, 8.30. PFF
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Mark Watson, Search, comedy, 7.30.
WAREHAM, Rex Cinema, The Promised Land, Danish historical epic, 7.30. PFF
WESTBURY sub MENDIP, Village Hall, Wicked Little Letters. MOVIOLA
WEST CAMEL, Davis Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Walk Right Back – The Everly Brothers Story.
Saturday 26 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Will Pickvance in Do Not Play This Piano, and Sun, 11.30am and 3pm.
Rondo, Impromptu Shakespeare, 7.30.
Chapel Arts, The Roy Orbison Experience, 8pm.
BEAULIEU, Abbey Church, Music at Beaulieu, Virtuoso Violin, with Rose Gosney and Nova Foresta Classical Players, Sibelius, Beethoven, etc. 7pm.
BOTHENHAMPTON, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Steve Backshaw, Ocean.
Pavilion Dance, Aakash Odedra Company in Little Murmur, 1 and 4.30pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Urban Folk Quartet, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, Arts Centre, Louis and the Iguanas, ska, soul, reggae and funk, 8pm.
McMillan Theatre, One Night of Adele, tribute, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Pavilion Dance SW in Plastic Paradiso, 3pm.
Electric Palace, Wolf Witch Giant Fairy, family folk opera from Covent Garden, 11am: Anatomy of a Fall, French thriller, 5pm: Small Things Like These, Irish film, 8pm. PFF
BRISTOL, Beacon, Public Service Broadcasting: Lantern Hall, Elijah Fox, jazz and psychedelic soul.
St George’s, Tarren, new folk, and Maddie Morris, folk singer songwriter, 8pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Waterloo, ABBA tribute, 7.30.
CORFE CASTLE, Village Hall, The Great Escaper, Michael Caine/Glenda Jackson drama, 7.30. PFF
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Amazing Bubble Man, 11.30am and 2pm: Megson, folk, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers, 30th anniversary tour, 7.30.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, The Unravelling Wilburys.
Cheese and Grain, Scouting for Girls.
Tree House, Captain Accident and the Disasters.
MARTOCK, Parish Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
NETHERBURY, Village Hall, Wicked Little Letters. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, PapaTango Theatre in The Watch House, thriller, 8pm: Cinema, Close Your Eyes, Spanish drama, 7.30. PFF
RINGWOOD, Greyfriars, Wilding, 2.30 and 7pm. MOVIOLA
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Brave Bold Drama in The Midnight Mission, 2pm.
SIXPENNY HANDLEY, Village Hall, Running Dog in The Goat Show, 2pm. AR
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Adam Brown, classical guitar, Celtic and Hispanic music, 7.30.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Christian Garrick and the Budapest Cafe Orchestra, jazz, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Buddy Holly and the Cricketers, 7.30.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, Coldplace, tribute, 7.30.
STUDLAND, Village Hall, The Holdovers, 7.30. PFF
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, singalong, 2.30: The Monk and the Gun, Bhutan drama, 7.30. PFF
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Martin Fry of ABC, music and conversation, 7.30: The Fallout, new play, 7.45.
WAREHAM, Rex Cinema, Uproar, New Zealand drama about rugby, 7.30. PFF
WESTON SUPER MARE, The Front Room, Roustabout Theatre in Little Red Riding Could, family show.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, The Legends of American Country Show.
Sunday 27 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Sian Phillips talks to Richard Digby Day, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Christopher Wheeldon ballet from the Royal Ballet, recorded, 2pm.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Andy Hamilton, comedy, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Alifie Moore, A Face for Radio, comedy, 8pm.
Electric Palace, The Taste of Things, French film, 5pm: La Chimera, Italian film, 8pm. PFF
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Larry Dean, Dodger, comedy, 7.30.
Beacon, The Cult 8424: Lantern Hall, All Star Jazz Band with Denys Baptiste, Ed Jones and Jonathan Gee.
St George’s, Minibeats, Piano for under 5s, 10.30am: for 4-8 year olds, 12.30pm: Johns’ Boys Welsh Male Voice Choir, 6pm.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Papatango in The Watch House, ghost story, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Killer Books with Prof David Wilson and Marcel Theroux, 7.30.
HARMANS CROSS, Village Hall, The Old Oak, Ken Loach film, 7.30. PFF
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Alex Voysey Blues Trio, 8pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Squeeze with Badly Drawn Boy.
STOBOROUGH, Village Hall, The Rider, 2017 Western, 7.30. PFF
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Evil Does Not Exist, Japanese drama, 7.30. PFF
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Amazing Bubble Man, 2pm.
WAREHAM, Carey’s Secret Garden, Fungi: The Web of Life, Australian documentary, 11am: The Biggest Little Farm, American environmental documentary, 2.30pm. PFF
Rex Cinema, Slow, Lithuanian romance, 7.30. PFF
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Buddy Holly and the Cricketers.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Mike Osman’s Jethro, comedy tribute, 7.30.
Monday 28 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, It’s The Economy, Stupid!, from the Fringe with Joe Sellman-Leava and Dylan Howells, and Tues, 7.30: The Egg, Smoking Apples in Kinder, puppetry and shadowplay, 3pm, and Tues 11.30am and 3pm.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Claire Richards of STEPS, Everybody Dance.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Ben Howard, indie rock: Lantern Hall, The Antlers, folk.
St George’s, Doug Allan, underwater film maker, illustrated talk, 7pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, HurlyBurly Theatre in You Are the Sun, folk opera for babies and grownups, 11am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm.
EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Mark Smith of Antiques Roadshow, Expert on the Road, 7.45.
MILBORNE ST ANDREW, Village Hall, Fideri Fidera in Oskar’s Amazing Adventure, 2pm. AR
SANDFORD, Heritage Hall, Wicked Little Letters, 7.30. PFF
SHERBORNE, Abbey, Organ Recital, 1.30pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Kensuke’s Kingdom, animated film, 2.30pm: The Teachers’ Lounge, German drama, 7.30. PFF
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Trash Test Dummies Circus, and Tues, 2pm.
WAREHAM, Rex Cinema, Fremont, film about Afghan refugee in California, 7.30. PFF
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Hallowe’en Spooktacular, 2pm.
WORTH MATRAVERS, Village Hall, Driving Madeleine, French comedy drama, 7.30. PFF
YEOVIL, Westlands, Wayne Sleep, talk, Just Different, 2pm.
Tuesday 29 October
BATH, Forum, 10cc.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, 1920 film with Aaron Hawthorne playing theatre Compton organ, 8pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Jane McDonald: Lantern Hall, Marcelle Lucont’s Whine List, comedy.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Boy and the Heron, animated film, 11am and 7.30p.
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Le Navet Bete in King Arthur, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Drifters.
HARMAN’S CROSS, Village Hall, Empire of Light, 7.30. PFF
HINTON MARTEL, Village Hall, Fideri Fidera in Oskar’s Amazing Adventure, 11am. AR
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, The Ultimate Bubble Show, 11am.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, New Frame in Buyer and Cellar, comedy, to Sat, 7.45, Thurs/Sat mats 2.45.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Soap Soup Theatre in Minny Stynker, for children and families, 11am and 2pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Inside Out 2, film, 2pm.
SHERBORNE, Abbey, City of Bristol Choir in concert, 1.30pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, The Little Mermaid, the Fintastic Family Panto, 12.30 and 4.30pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, PapaTango in The Watch House, classic ghost story, 7.30: Studio, Babette’s Feast, 1987 Danish drama, 7.30. PFF
Durlston Castle, Francis Hodgkins, Anything But a Still Life, documentaryh avbout New Zealand painter who lived at Corfe Castle, 7.30. PFF
TAUNTON, Tacchi-Morris Art Centre, TAOS in The Wizard of Oz, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30, Sun 1 and 5.30pm.
WAREHAM, Rex Cinema, Kidnapped – The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, historical drama from Italy, 7.30. PFF
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, Masqueraders in Annie, to Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Fairport Convention.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers, 7.30.
Wednesday 30 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Box Tale Soup in Casting the Runes, 7.30.
Chapel Arts, Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage, In the Dark We Grow, 8pm.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Imperial Classical Ballet in Swan Lake, 7.30.
Boscome, Arts Depot, Run Lola Run, 1998 German drama, 7pm. PFF
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Trio Chagall, Haydn, Filidei, Robert Schumann, 1pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Fairport Convention, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Squeeze with Badly Drawn Boy: Lantern Hall, Charlotte Day Wilson, Canadian jazz singer songwriter.
Old Vic, Weston Studio, Aakash Odedra Company in Little Murmur, dance theatre, to Sat, various day times.
St George’s, Michael Loader, storyteller, and musicians Fiona Barrow and Jon Hardeman, All Creatures Great and Small, 3.15.
BUCKLAND NEWTON, Village Hall, Scarlet Oak Theatre in Along Came a Magpie, 10.30am. AR
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Geoff Norcott, comedy, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Martin Simpson, guitar.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Monster, Japanese thriller, 7.30. PFF
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Warmduscher, jazz, funk, punk, disco, pogo.
HONITON, Beehive, Candlelight Theatre in The Silverdrake Academy for Witches and Wizards, 2pm.
KINGSTON, St James Church, Anatomy of a Fall, French thriller, 7.30. PFF
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, PapaTango Theatre in The Watch House, ghostly thriller, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Beethoven’s Emperor, BSO, cond Kevin John Edusi, Nelson Goerner, piano, Beethoven, Prokofiev, 7.30: Rude Science, 11.30am and 3pm.
POWERSTOCK, Hut, Fideri Fidera in Oskar’s Amazing Adventure, 11am. AR
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Exhibition on Screen: John Singer Sargent, Fashion and Swagger, with gues speaker director David Bickerstaff, 7.30. PFF
Durlston Castle, All That Breathes, Indian wildlife documentary, 7.30. PFF
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, A Ride Across America with travel writer Simon Parker, 7.30.
WAREHAM, Rex Cinema, All We Imagine As Light, Indian drama, 7.30. PFF
Creech Grange Country House, double bill, The Remains of the Day (1993), reception 2.45 film 3.45: The Duallists (1977), Ridley Scott’s first film, reception 6.30, film 7.30. PFF
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Man of the World, the music of Peter Green.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Sh*tfaced Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 7.30.
Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Godland.
Thursday 31 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Fidget Theatre in Football Freddie, 11.30am and 3pm.
Rondo, This is Your (Improvised) musical, 7.30.
Chapel Arts, Ida and Samantha, Americana folk from Denmark, 8pm.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, The Stylistics.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Hannah’s Hoofers in A Spoonful of Sugar, dance showcase, and Fri, 4 and 7pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Mark Bruce’s Frankenstein, with Jonathan Goddard, dance, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Mo Gilligan, In the Moment, comedy.
Tobacco Factory, Haunt, Pray, Love, to Sat.
St George’s, Hana Chang, violin, Jonathan Ware, piano, Mozart, Elgar, 1pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Hallowe’en – 20 years later, film, 1998 film, 8pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Practially Perfect Pictures in The Museum of Marvellous Things, storytelling, puppetry and songs, 11am and 2pm.
EXETER, University Great Hall, Beethoven’s Emperor, BSO, cond Kevin John Edusi, Nelson Goerner, piano, Beethoven, Prokofiev.
FARWAY, St Michael and All Angels Church, The Paper Cinema, short tales of other worlds, ghosts and the supernatural, 7.30. ViA
FROME, Merlin, Kairos Theatre in Blackadder II, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2pm.
HONITON, Beehive, Honiton Community Theatre in Alice in Wonderland, to Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2.30.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Soap Soup Theatre in Minny Stynker, 2pm: Martin Simpson, A Master of his Art, traditional folk, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Live and Unheard, local bands, 7.30: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, 7.45: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, 2024 film.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, James Wilton Dance, The Four Seasons, 7.30.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Room on the Broom, film, 11am.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Colin Sutton, The Makings of a Murderer, 7.45.
Turner Sims, Sultan Stevenson, jazz piano, and his trio, 8pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, horror night double bill, Late Night with the Devil, 6pm: The Shining, 8pm. PFF
Durlston Castle, Life Father, Like Son, Japanese drama, 7.30. PFF
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Out of the Forest Theatre in The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria, play with Bulgarian and Jewish folk music, 7.30pm.
WAREHAM, Rex Cinema, Radical, Mexican/American drama, 7.30. PFF
Isle of Purbeck Golf Club, A Haunting in Venice, Poirot film, 7.30. PFF
Carey Hall, The Fall Guy, comedy adventure, 7.30. PFF
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Steve Backshaw, Ocean, film, talk, science, etc, 2pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Rock for Heroes.
WOOTTON FITZPAINE, Village Hall, Scarlet Oak Theatre in Along Came a Magpie, 10.30am. AR
YEOVIL, Westlands, Lost in Music – the original disco show, 7.30.